Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!
Below are two albums of pictures that I created:
1. Our grand daughter Adrianna.
2. Tears of Mary!

MARY, OUR MOTHER

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Mary TV Daily Reflection 11/13/2013

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November 13, 2013

St. Francis Xavier Cabrini

Dear Family of Mary!

"...Have a personal
relationship with the Father, which will deepen even more your
relationship as a community of my children - my apostles..." (November 2, 2013)

Our Lady is calling us to a
personal relationship with the Father. We might wonder how we can do
this. It occurred to me that Jesus came among us, became one of us, so
that He could bring us back to the Father and give us a personal
relationship with Him. This was His entire mission. He did not come to
make Himself a King. He did not come to judge the world, or to put
things right by His power. He came to lead us back to our Father and His
Father.

He is uniquely able to lead
us to the Father, because He came from the Father and is one with the
Father. And so we can trust Him to show us how to have a personal
relationship with the Father.

Jesus' relationship with the
Father happened through prayer. Jesus, throughout His earthly ministry,
spent many hours in prayer, often praying all night. His heart yearned
for the Father. His desire was for the Father. His joy was in the
Father. And just as Our Lady tells us in this message, His relationship
with the Father deepened His love for us.

Jesus taught us how to have a personal relationship with the Father, when He taught us how to pray:

"And
when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to
stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they
may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their
reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray
to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.

"And
in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they
think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them,
for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like
this:

Our Father who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our debts,

As we also have forgiven our debtors;

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil. (Mt 6: 5-13)

In this passage from
Matthew's Gospel, Jesus teaches us how to pray to the Father. It is a
very simple teaching. Pray in private, in the silence of your heart.
Pray simply with these few words, but let them lead you into a
conversation with the Father. Take the words of the "Our Father" and let
them sink deeply into your heart. They will open the doors of your
heart and facilitate the conversation. These words are the best
conversation starters!

Our Lady did this with the
visionaries and their prayer group in the very beginning. She helped
them to really meditate on the words of the Our Father. They would pray
one phrase over and over until they unlocked the deeper meaning in it.
We can try it ourselves.

For example, for me just
saying "Our Father" is a revelation. When I first go to prayer I have
all my needs, my worries, my intentions on my mind. I come full of my
own agenda. But saying "Our Father" opens up my heart to a different
agenda. I do not come to the Father on my own, but as one of His many
children. I come as a member of His family, one of the kids! And that
perspective gives me so much peace, so much more confidence, and joy!

Saying "Our Father" shows me
that I live in a community of love based on that one Father. My
identity comes from the Father of us all, the Father who created us and
who loves us. In that love, the family exists and that love is what
holds us together. All our needs will be met by our loving Father.

If we are wondering about
having a personal relationship with the Father, maybe we should start
with the "Our Father" and see what kind of conversation will begin and
what kind of relationship will develop!

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Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!Below is a slide show of pictures that I have collected: Tears of Mary!

Have a look!

Jeremiah 14:17; 15:18

"Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the Virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with an exceedingly grievous evil. / Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed?"

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna

Where Peter is, there is the Church, where the Church is there is Eternal Life

About Me

I'm 80, formally married to Marianne for 52 years, [Marianne passed away to the Lord on August 9th, 2013 after suffering a stroke and two cardiac arrests.] We have 4 children (plus 2 in heaven-stillborn) and nine grandchildren plus 1 Step-grandchild. I'm a Korean War Vet, U.S. Navy; I was a Motorcycle News Courier for U.P.I., and WNEW Chanel 5 TV News, during 60's & 70's; a Lieutenant in the Wycoff Hospital Police in the 90's. I was ordained a Permanent Deacon for the Brooklyn Diocese on April 25, 1987 and served in four parishes before relocating to Florida in 2002. I'm still incardinated for Brooklyn Diocese. There was no parish in my town so we traveled to either Mt. Dora or Eustis for Mass. My oldest son and daughter, John and Anne, lived near us but the rest of the gang are up North in New York and Pennsylvania. We have now relocated to a northern state and my ministry is mostly on the Internet with some blogs and groups. I also assist the pastor at the local Catholic church. I owe my life and conversion/calling to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel de Garabandal, who has brought me to her Son Jesus. I am Their servant and slave! I only want to do the Will of God and glorify the Most Blessed Trinity with my life!

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;let me never be put to shame!In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,to which I may continually come;you have given the command to save me,for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.For you, O Lord, are my hope,my trust, O Lord, from my youth.Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;you are he who took me from my mother's womb.My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,but you are my strong refuge.My mouth is filled with your praise,and with your glory all the day.Do not cast me off in the time of old age;forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;those who watch for my life consult togetherand say, “God has forsaken him;pursue and seize him,for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;O my God, make haste to help me!May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;with scorn and disgrace may they be coveredwho seek my hurt.

But I will hope continuallyand will praise you yet more and more.My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,of your deeds of salvation all the day,for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,O God, do not forsake me,until I proclaim your might to another generation,your power to all those to come.Your righteousness, O God,reaches the high heavens.You who have done great things,O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamitieswill revive me again;from the depths of the earthyou will bring me up again.You will increase my greatnessand comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harpfor your faithfulness, O my God;I will sing praises to you with the lyre,O Holy One of Israel.My lips will shout for joy,when I sing praises to you;my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointedwho sought to do me hurt.

Welcome to my Marian Blog

As you can tell from my postings, I'm in love with Mother Mary, who has taken me under her mantle of protection, has taught and led me to Her Divine Son, Jesus; Who in turn has led me, in the Holy Spirit, to the Eternal Father! Two prayers that I say often tell who I am:Come O Holy Spirit; Come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved Spouse.

O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee. My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.